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Das Buch ist angenehm präzise geschrieben. Es ist mehr ein philosophisches Buch als ein Physik Buch. Es geht auch viel um antike Philosophen die aufgewertet werden. Mein Physik Durchbruch besteht darin den Raum als Feld aufzufassen. Angenehm zu hören.


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Helps you to dive into this topic

Very good book and well read. I also liked, that the names were pronounced properly! It's a start of you are interested in this topic

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Elegant prose, flawed physics

It’s a good summary of the history of the atomic idea, relativity, quantum physics and upto the major developments in LQG. Unfortunately recent experiments have more or less discredited this theory. However there excellent narration and the beautiful prose still makes it worth listening to.

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Beautiful !

An extremely interesting and engaging book, it's a small mastepiece.
I hope that the author continues bringing physics to mortals

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"The best answers that we have at the present..."

I was getting ready for an in depth dive into loop quantum gravity...
This book doesn't go all that deep into details of LQG, but it does provide a clear and vivid overview of the history of scientific (and pholisophical) thinking, however.

Loop Quantum Gravity seems likely to be the most promising research direction in the field at the present moment in time, although I'm still not sure I can wrap my mind around Carlo Rovelli's concept of time as an emergent phenomenon in relation to an increase of entropy and heat radiation.
If we understand that heat is essentially nothing but the accelerated movement of molecules in a medium, I still have to comprehend how this makes sense if we want to deny the fundamental reality of time... What is acceleration and movement without time? What is heat if we don't want to accept the idea of time of changing states in a succesion of moments in time?
And how does any observation of nature make sense if there is no fundamental reality to mental processes in past, present and future?

Perception, cognition, memory, recollection/ recognition, learning...
I cannot see (yet) how any epistemological process makes sense in disregard of time...
How can I see anything in nature, if there is no time for the light rays reflected from an object to finally meet my retina and cause a cascade of nerve reactions?
How can anything react (or happen or be registered) without time?

This book is *now* leaving me with mysteries to solve...
Maybe I will understand a *bit* more in as time goes by?/ Or I will learn that time does not actually go by and I have to (finally) transcend my narrow concept of a chronologically and causally meaningful reality. /? ⏳⌚🔮🔍

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Great book about physics/quantum gravity

One of the two best books about modern physics I have read. By explaining quantum gravity through the evolution of the ideas from simple, sometimes ancient roots, the author manages to reduce abstractness of the topic and create a sense of understanding near the borders of human knowledge.

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...it is the way that modern physics and science have come to light... A WONDER

when you listen to the text you get the idea that the Author has felt the WONDER of the development of science and modern physics.
The value of science that has come to light through the working of the mind of humans.
After this development of physical science, HUMANITY will have to revert inside.
A cycle of human development is closing in.
The future of our species?
We cannot know...

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Askil

Good for basic physics but the author insists on projecting his very particular worldview at every turn. This greatly damages the information contained and is frankly very annoying. It is remarkable that while doing this, he keeps bragging about how curious and brave he is for having this particular worldview, which ironic and narrow-minded. Any reader must be aware of this not to take his pontificating seriously. There are many good "physics for laymen" books where the author speaks much less of the superiority of his own ideology, Max Tegmark for example is much less arrogant.

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Not sure yet

Haven't finished the book yet but a lot of the content of this book i have already seen in other books. The physics explanation are a little superficial. The author describes Einstein and other people in the field with words as: genius, brilliant and intelligent so often, that the reader gets the impression the author thinks that when using these words just often enough they might think he must be super intellectual as well. That's not how it works. By the way: Since he loves Einstein so much: Einstein was never friend of man cults and rejected them. I would wish for more focus on the actual concepts than a fixation one people and exaggerated laurels.

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